If you’ve ever been to a presentation for a company like Amway or Melaluca, then you likely understand the appeal of someone like Doug Ford. The script is fairly simple, some guy (invariably a man) gets up in front of a room full of people hoping to get rich, and
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Canadian Soapbox: If Ontario’s PCs really want to win, then Elliott is the obvious choice…..
Well Ontario PCs, I’m in. I finally received my leadership voting information in today’s mail and thanks to an on-line tutorial I was able to verify myself. Now all that’s left is to wait for my ballot and to exercise my digital franchise. Its been quite the journey. I signed
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives – Let’s Get Ready To RUMBLE!!!
Okay Ontario Conservative party members and watchers, the moment you’ve been waiting for is almost here. Who will come out on top in this winner take all cage match and go on to face against Kathleen Wynne? The leader of the Liberal NWO. Ontario’s Queen of Hydro, The Sultan of
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Why does Vic “Feel Her Up Fedeli” still have a job? Bombshell news…
Welcome to the matrix my friends. I’ve never actually seen any of the Matrix movies from start to finish, but if I understand the premise correctly the idea is that what we, “the sheep” see as reality, that its all really just an illusion, designed to control and manipulate us.
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Conservatives need to rally around something simple – Tax cuts
Its Sunday, and I am in a really good mood. I’m not able to make it to Church every week due to my work schedule, but today was not one of those days. I’m able to attend about two out of every three Sundays. Today the hymns were upbeat, the
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Fair minded Ontario PC members should vote for Patrick Brown…
In legal circles you’ll sometimes come across the expression ‘fruit from the poison tree’. In the Patrick Brown case the poison came from a story that came out January 24th from Bell Media news outlet CTV. I’m not going to rehash it in detail, the story was such a piece
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Is Caroline Mulroney the Hillary Clinton of Ontario politics?
Comparing Hillary Clinton with Caroline Mulroney might seem like a stretch, but it does work on a few levels. Hillary Clinton entered the political arena in large measure due to the name recognition that came from her husband being President of the United States for eight years. Caroline Mulroney’s recognition
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Caroline Mulroney – Burning down the PC house?
Caroline Mulroney is running for the leadership of Onatrio’s Progressive Conservative Party, following in her father’s political footsteps. Conservatives interested in the long term viability of the Ontario PC Party may want to consider the history, the similarities are striking. For younger readers Brian Mulroney was the last Progressive Conservative
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Am I still standing with Patrick Brown? Read and find out…
I just got off the phone with my brother, a long time member of Ontario’s PC party. He wanted to know if, in light of recent revelations, I still supported Patrick Brown’s bid to reclaim the leadership of the party. I wrote a blog post on February 16th that’s been
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Welcome to Canada, where Omar Khadr has more rights than Patrick Brown….
Ontario pay attention, you are about to witness the complete and utter hijacking of democracy in this province. Word is out that the committe charged with green lighting candidates for the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party, that they are going to deny Patrick Brown permission to run for the
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Patrick Brown cleared his name and joined the leadership race…
Okay, first things first, full disclosure. I do not know Patrick Brown, I have never met the man. Likewise I do not know and have never met any of the other leadership candidates. I have also taken out a one year membership in the PC Party of Ontario, something I
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: I stand with Patrick Brown – Here’s why I’ll be voting for him…
If you’re a political junkie like me, then you’re no doubt hooked on what’s happening with the Patrick Brown story. I’m all over this like Doug Ford’s little brother on a crack pipe. Patrick Brown, left for dead….the knives still stuck in his back with nobody in the party with
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: CTV News – The Donald Trump of Canadian journalism
CTV News has announced that they, “stand behind their reporting” of the Patrick Brown story and that attacks on their journalistic practices are, “groundless and wrong“. Really? They can stand behind their reporting all they like but they don’t get to decide if criticism of their journalistic practices is without
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Steve Paikin and Patrick Brown – Why the double standard? #MeToo
I do not know Patrick Brown or Steve Paikin. Dealing strictly with the facts I know that both have been accused of sexual misconduct. In the case of Brown the accusations have been made anonymously, while Mr. Paikin’s accuser has revealed her identity. What I am repeatedly hearing with regard
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Why Caroline Mulroney must be removed fom the PC leadership race…
In poltics and in other arenas even the appearance of a conflict can cause serious problems. And with the way in which Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party is undergoing a leadership race, the PCs should not even be allowing Caroline Mulroney to run for the job. Not now certainly, although
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Is Trudeau next? The future is female and the politics of anything goes
I like Justin Trudeau, I don’t always agree with his politics but I do like the man. Do I think he’s the greatest Prime Minister Canada has ever had? Uhm…..no. But I do think his heart is in the right place and that he genuinely wants to make Canada a
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Patrick Brown and Omar Khadr both victims of injustice….
Nothing like a political scandal to get the creative juices flowing, inspiring me to dust off the cobwebs on this forgotten little corner of cyberspace and chime in. I was planning on using caution here. I’m aware of the political climate that we live in and I was going to
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Tempting the Devil in the Name of God – Amazing Title, Amazing Book
Through this blog I’m invited to review books from time to time, and on the vast majority of occasions I let them pass. But sometimes I’m hit with a title that peaks my interest, such was the case with Howard Beckman’s book, “Tempting the de…
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Tempting the Devil in the Name of God – Amazing Title, Amazing Book
Through this blog I’m invited to review books from time to time, and on the vast majority of occasions I let them pass. But sometimes I’m hit with a title that peaks my interest, such was the case with Howard Beckman’s book, “Tempting the devil in the Name of God“. Hot
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Tempting the Devil in the Name of God – Amazing Title, Amazing Book
Through this blog I’m invited to review books from time to time, and on the vast majority of occasions I let them pass. But sometimes I’m hit with a title that peaks my interest, such was the case with Howard Beckman’s book, “Tempting the de…
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